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A proof of a Jim Woodring stone lithograph print in progress. See bigger at The Woodring Monitor. Jaw-dropping.

The good folks at Lincoln Butterfield Animation are having a Facebook contest: come up with a punchline for this cartoon and you could win a copy of Rip M.D.! See here for the rules. Have fun and good luck!

Johnny Ryan brings the horror in his new comic for Vice. Prepare to squeam.

Spotlighting a bit more artwork from the GRSF Post-It Show 6 (some previously seen here), among other things. • Eleanor Davis's "Es vs. Ich" Post-it series at her Doing Fine blog, with preliminary doodles on her We Be Ouija sketch blog • Anders Nilsen's Post-its at The Monologuist • Jim Blanchard's portrait of Sterling Hayden as Gen. Jack T. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove (not a Post-it) • Leslie Stein's "Murmur" from Smoke Signal plus other stuff at her Majestic Creature blog • Johnny Ryan posted a few of what look to be mostly previously unseen commissions from a few years…

At the Abstract Comics blog, Andrei Molotiu posts photos of his and other Abstract Comics: The Anthology contributors' artwork in the Party Crashers exhibit at the Arlington Arts Center.

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: New York Magazine names their Top Ten Comics of 2010, including:  #10: A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio: "Ten spooky, perceptive stories of girls and ghosts in trouble from one of the masters of shojo manga, who has her work translated into English for the first time." #5: Set to Sea by Drew Weing: "He may look like a big lug, but he’s got dreams of the ocean and the heart of a poet. The hero of Weing’s salty debut sails off to adventure in this pocket-size sea-shanty of a…

(Mark Pickerel) We'd like to thank the big crowd that braved a biblical deluge to attend the fabulous fourth anniversary at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle on Saturday. Thanks to our talented musician friends Mark Pickerel and Zak Sally — who escaped a biblical blizzard in Minneapolis to appear. Kudos also to Jason T. Miles and Max Clotfelter for organizing the amazing "Medieval Thinkers" art exhibition. Another magical evening at Fantagraphics Bookstore! (Zak Sally) If you weren't able to make it, be sure to drop by the store to see the art show, peruse hand crafted publications by exhibiting…

Ray Fenwick will be in attendance at a launch/exhibit/signing party for his new book Mascots at the 84 1/2 gallery in Winnipeg on Thursday, December 23, 7:00 PM-11:00 PM. Do go… Winnipeggers? Winnipegians? Winnipegites? …Manitobans!

Click image to enlarge Drew Friedman has turned in his cover art for Even More Old Jewish Comedians, the third book in the OJC oeuvre which is currently finding its place in our Fall 2011 schedule, and ooh it's gawjus. Here's what Drew says about it: "It's comedian Stewie Stone, still alive, but sadly I just learned dying of cancer. He's the quintessential OJC, not well known but a great Old Jewish face, a trooper, and dedicated to his craft."

Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti & Claudio Piersanti 192-page black & white 7.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-409-2 Ships in: January 2011 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now He lives day to day and hand to mouth, this shambling lug of a man, wrestling with his demons, picking up work where he can, and drinking himself into oblivion. Until one days his palms begin to bleed… These newfound stigmata lose him his job, and he ends up as part of a traveling carnival, where he even finds love. But his past catches up with him — violently so. Has he…